On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 20:30 -0500, Alex GS wrote: > On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 14:52 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 13:09 +0000, Allan Day wrote: > > > Hi Alex, > > > > > > Thanks for reaching out with your ideas. I'm afraid that you're > > > catching us at a bad time - we are really close to UI freeze and a lot > > > of us are working flat out on that. I personally don't have much time > > > to spare on mailing lists right now. :) > > > > > > Can you explain what the GNOME 2 sub-project would actually look like? > > > It's hard to respond without knowing details about how it would > > > actually work. I understand that you are proposing to utilise some > > > GNOME 3 modules, but how would it differ? Would it have a 3.x > > > gnome-control-center? Would it have a shell? If not, which pieces > > > would you use instead? Would you expect the GNOME project to make > > > regular GNOME 2 releases alongside GNOME ones? Would we work to ensure > > > we produce quality GNOME 2 releases as well as GNOME 3 releases? How > > > would we market these two experiences? What would we recommend to > > > distributions? > > > > The main question for me would be, why would we want a "GNOME 2"-like > > sub-project in GNOME when we dropped support for a very similar > > interface, the fallback mode. > > > > To respond that that I'll copy a response I posted to the Fedora > Workstation mailing list, it's modified to address your question > specifically.
I wouldn't mind if the response wasn't horribly flawed. It seems to boil down to "GNOME 2 was released around the same time as MacOS X so it was awesome". Furthermore, we obviously don't agree that GNOME 2 is that great, otherwise we'd still be working on it. So you'd have to do a *lot* more convincing. Finally, I'd point out that MacOS X has made pretty extensive UI changes, some of them clearly inspired by GNOME 3. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
